Controller POST NUMBER: 474501
Role: Controller
Salary: $225,000 - $250,000/annually Bonus & Benefits
Location: Manhattan, NY (*3 days a week onsite*)
Job Description:
Financial Operations & Reporting Excellence
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Drive the Monthly Close: Lead the end-to-end month-end close process, delivering insightful, accurate financial reporting and KPIs that inform executive decision-making.
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Operational Optimization: Oversee and scale critical accounting policies, procurement, and expense procedures to ensure robust internal controls.
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Treasury & Audit Management: Direct tax and treasury operations while serving as the primary lead for the annual financial audit.
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Working Capital Management: Optimize collections, payables, and reconciliations to maintain a healthy cash flow.
Technical Accounting & Loan Portfolio Governance
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Lending Subject Matter Expert: Own the accounting for the company’s loan portfolio, specifically regarding revenue recognition, interest accruals, and deferred fee amortization under US GAAP.
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Credit Loss & ASC 326 (CECL): Maintain the allowance for credit losses, including reserve methodology, charge-off accounting, and impairment assessments in partnership with the Credit team.
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Complex Financial Instruments: Evaluate and document technical conclusions for complex instruments including SAFEs, warrants, and hybrid instruments (ASC 480, 815, 718).
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Restructuring & Modifications: Analyze loan modifications and debt restructurings (ASC 310-20/470-50), authoring technical memos to support GAAP conclusions.
Strategic Partnership
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CFO Advisory: Partner closely with the CFO to develop operating budgets, long-range forecasts, and deep-dive Budget vs. Actual (BvA) analysis.
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Stakeholder Reporting: Collaborate with Operations to produce high-integrity reporting for lenders, investors, and syndicated loan participants.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.